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Mariner, Renegade and Castaway: Chris Braithwaite

Seamen's Organiser, Socialist and Militant Pan-Africanist

ISBN-13: 9781909026568

Contributor(s): Christian Hogsbjerg

Subjects: History

Publisher: Bookmarks

Publisher Imprint: Redwords

Publication Date: 17-07-2014

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£4.00

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About the book

Born in Barbados, Chris Braithwaite (1885-1944) went to sea with the British merchant navy as a teenager and travelled the world as a sailor. After settling in London, Braithwaite became a member of the National Union of Seamen, and in 1930 he joined the Seamen's Minority Movement, organised by the Communist Party of Great Britain. Hogsbjerg's 'people's history of the sea' examines Braithwaite's life, opening a portal onto a dynamic Black and Red Atlantic world of work, politics anti-racist revolution.

Mariner, Renegade and Castaway: Chris Braithwaite

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